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Unanimous Support for Providing Housing Funds and Free Education to the Wrongfully Convicted

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: October 11, 2019
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Unanimous Support for Providing Housing Funds and Free Education to the Wrongfully Convicted

By Danielle Silva California Governor Gavin Newsom has recently signed Assembly Bills 701 and 703, increa ...

By Danielle Silva California Governor Gavin Newsom has recently signed Assembly Bills 701 and 703, increasing the support exonerees receive after leaving prison – bills that have received unanimous su ...

October 11, 2019
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Analysis: Was Wrongfully Convicted Fashion Designer a Victim of Racial Prejudice on the Part of Prosecutor?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 10, 2019
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Analysis: Was Wrongfully Convicted Fashion Designer a Victim of Racial Prejudice on the Part of Prosecutor?

In 2008, Anand Jon Alexander, a rising star in the fashion design world, was convicted of multiple counts ...

In 2008, Anand Jon Alexander, a rising star in the fashion design world, was convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault and received a life sentence in prison. He is widely believed to have been ...

October 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Texas Plans to Execute Jewish Man Denied a Fair Trial by an Anti-Semitic Judge

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 07, 2019
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Texas Plans to Execute Jewish Man Denied a Fair Trial by an Anti-Semitic Judge

By Heather L. Weaver UPDATE: On Friday, October 4, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, where Halprin had ...

By Heather L. Weaver UPDATE: On Friday, October 4, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, where Halprin had sought relief before turning to the U.S. Supreme Court, granted a stay of execution for Randy ...

October 07, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 14: Joe D. Martin Speaks Life from Prison

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 24, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 14: Joe D. Martin Speaks Life from Prison

Joe D. Martin joins us live from his Tennessee Prison. His story from a Change.org petition: "Joe D. Mart ...

Joe D. Martin joins us live from his Tennessee Prison. His story from a Change.org petition: "Joe D. Martin, Jr., did not receive a fair trial in 1996. As a result, he was wrongfully convicted and has ...

September 24, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 13 – Free Ronnie Long

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 20, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 13 – Free Ronnie Long

This is from the Generation Why Podcast: "Ronnie Long. April 25, 1976. Concord, North Carolina. A man ent ...

This is from the Generation Why Podcast: "Ronnie Long. April 25, 1976. Concord, North Carolina. A man enters a home through an upstairs window and rapes the woman who lives there. Detectives work quic ...

September 20, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Couzens Drags Ajay Dev Evidentiary Hearing Out for Hours

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 13, 2019
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Couzens Drags Ajay Dev Evidentiary Hearing Out for Hours

If there was hope that a series of evidentiary hearings in the decade-old Ajay Dev case would shed light ...

If there was hope that a series of evidentiary hearings in the decade-old Ajay Dev case would shed light on what happened in the years leading up to the 2009 conviction of Mr. Dev – on charges of rapi ...

September 13, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 11 – Obie Anthony and Exonerated Nation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 10, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 11 – Obie Anthony and Exonerated Nation

In 1995, Obie Anthony was 19 years old when he was convicted of murder and attempted robbery. Despite no ...

In 1995, Obie Anthony was 19 years old when he was convicted of murder and attempted robbery. Despite no physical evidence connecting him to the crime, prosecutors relied on testimony from an informa ...

September 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Lester Holt Talks about Why People Falsely Confess to Crimes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 08, 2019
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Lester Holt Talks about Why People Falsely Confess to Crimes

When a motion to suppress came forward in the Daniel Marsh case about five years ago, I was alarmed to di ...

When a motion to suppress came forward in the Daniel Marsh case about five years ago, I was alarmed to discovered that they took the young man, barely 16, interrogated him for about five to seven hour ...

September 08, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 8 – Marvin Mutch’s 41 Years at San Quentin

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 22, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 8 – Marvin Mutch’s 41 Years at San Quentin

In 1974, in the small town of Union City, California, a 13-year-old girl was found, floating in a creek. ...

In 1974, in the small town of Union City, California, a 13-year-old girl was found, floating in a creek. Having no leads, the police at some point focused on a 19-year-old security guard, Marvin Mutch ...

August 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform Plan

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 21, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform Plan

Last week Bernie Sanders published his criminal justice reform plan. On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren publis ...

Last week Bernie Sanders published his criminal justice reform plan. On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren published hers – on Medium. “The United States makes up 5% of the world’s population, but nearly 20% ...

August 21, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 6 – Jeffrey Deskovic – from Wrongly Convicted Teen to Activist

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 19, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 6 – Jeffrey Deskovic – from Wrongly Convicted Teen to Activist

The story of Jeffrey Deskovic is a classic case of a wrongful conviction. At the age of 17, he was accuse ...

The story of Jeffrey Deskovic is a classic case of a wrongful conviction. At the age of 17, he was accused of raping and murdering a 15-year-old school classmate. This was despite the fact that his DN ...

August 19, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Ten Years after He Was Sentenced to 378 Years, Ajay Dev Case Returns to Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 27, 2019
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Ten Years after He Was Sentenced to 378 Years, Ajay Dev Case Returns to Yolo County

The last time that Yolo County saw Ajay Dev’s case was in August 2009. Mr. Dev, having been convicted of ...

The last time that Yolo County saw Ajay Dev’s case was in August 2009. Mr. Dev, having been convicted of 76 counts of raping his adopted daughter, was led away for 378 years. While Mr. Dev was not in ...

July 27, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 2 – Lisa Rea – Restorative Justice

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 26, 2019
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Vanguard Court Watch Podcast Episode 2 – Lisa Rea – Restorative Justice

Lisa Rea is the president and founder of Restorative Justice International (RJI). RJI is an international ...

Lisa Rea is the president and founder of Restorative Justice International (RJI). RJI is an international association and network first created in 2008 through social media with over 6000 members and ...

July 26, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 19, 2019
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Black Boys Aren’t “Wolf Packs” and Abusive Prosecutors Aren’t “Lone Wolves”

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrow ...

By Somil Trivedi and Nusrat Choudhury Ava Duvernay’s new miniseries, When They See Us, retells the harrowing story of the five Black and Latinx boys wrongfully imprisoned for the rape and near murder ...

June 19, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Commentary: Can the Jury Convict on the Word of a Four-Year-Old?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 18, 2019
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Commentary: Can the Jury Convict on the Word of a Four-Year-Old?

The lengthy trial closed on Monday in San Francisco, and both sides agreed on basically one thing – the v ...

The lengthy trial closed on Monday in San Francisco, and both sides agreed on basically one thing – the verdict comes down to whether the jury decides to believe the word of a four-year-old potential ...

June 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Linda Fairstein Is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 17, 2019
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Linda Fairstein Is Canceled. Is ‘Law & Order’ Culture Next?

By the Appeal “I had stared at death before. I was way too familiar with the vagaries of murder.” So begi ...

By the Appeal “I had stared at death before. I was way too familiar with the vagaries of murder.” So begins “Deadfall,” a novel written by celebrity prosecutor Linda Fairstein. She continues: “I had s ...

June 17, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 10, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Four Cases from SF to Sac Illustrate the State of the Injustice System

The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the boar ...

The Vanguard is now covering cases from San Francisco to Sacramento and we find injustice across the board. In San Francisco, we have been covering the case of Antonio Carter Bibbs accused of molestin ...

June 10, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Unreliable Eyewitness ID Leads to Conviction Reversal in 2002 Shooting

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 17, 2019
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Unreliable Eyewitness ID Leads to Conviction Reversal in 2002 Shooting

(From Press Release) - A man wrongfully convicted in a 2002 shooting has had his conviction reversed base ...

(From Press Release) - A man wrongfully convicted in a 2002 shooting has had his conviction reversed based on newly discovered evidence, uncovered by the Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) a ...

May 17, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Prosecutorial Oversight Lacking in Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 22, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Prosecutorial Oversight Lacking in Yolo County

Last week we saw at the state level a shining example of how even a liberal attorney general is not suffi ...

Last week we saw at the state level a shining example of how even a liberal attorney general is not sufficient to produce proper oversight. In the Orange County jailhouse informant scandal, a case th ...

April 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Exonerees in 2018 Lost a Record Number of Years to Wrongful Imprisonment

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: April 10, 2019
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Exonerees in 2018 Lost a Record Number of Years to Wrongful Imprisonment

Conviction Integrity Units in prosecutors’ offices have tripled since 2013 (From Press Release) - In 2018 ...

Conviction Integrity Units in prosecutors’ offices have tripled since 2013 (From Press Release) - In 2018, the National Registry of Exonerations recorded 151 exonerations, setting a record for the num ...

April 10, 2019
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